Research Projects

Current Research Projects

*****Induced Earthquake Studies*****
Project Website (out of date)

• Understanding North Texas Earthquakes, SMU University Research Council, Collaborators: M. Hornbach, B. Stump, C. Hayward, M.B. Magnani, Z. Lu

• TexNet: Earthquakes and complex faulting in North and West Texas, Univ. of Texas. PI: H.R. DeShon, Collaborators: B. Stump, C. Frohlich, A. Savvaidis, P. Hennings

Subduction Zone Studies

• Teleseismic Double-Difference Tomography and Real-time Waveform Cross-Correlation

New Madrid Intraplate Earthquake Studies

• Miscellaneous applications of high-resolution earthquake location, waveform correlation and machine learning toward understanding differences between natural and induced earthquakes on intraplate faults, Collaborators: J. Walter (OU)
• Northern Embayment Lithosphere Experiment, NSF Earthscope, Collaborators: C. Langston, H.R. DeShon, C.A. Powell, S. Horton (UoM), C. Ammon (Penn State), and B. Hermann (SLU)
  • NELE Project Website

Past Projects

• Imaging 3D Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Heterogeneity Along the Seismogenic Zone of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, NSF MARGINS Program, PI: H.R. DeShon (UoM)

• Defining locations and patch sizes for slow earthquake ruptures in subduction zones, NSF Marine Geology and Geophysics, PIs: H.R. DeShon (UoM), S.L. Bilek (New Mexico Tech), E.R. Engdahl (U. Colorado)
  • Tsunami Earthquake Project Data and Publication Site

• Imaging Body Wave Attenuation Heterogeneity within the New Madrid Seismic Zone using Local Earthquakes, USGS NEHRP, PI: H.R. DeShon (UoM)

• Detection and Location of Non-Volcanic Tremor in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, USGS NEHRP, PIs: H.R. DeShon, C. Langston, S. Horton, M. Withers (UoM)
• High-precision teleseismic relocation and tomography for the M 9 and M 8.7 Sumatra great earthquake sequences, NSF Geophysics, Collaborators: H.R. DeShon (UoM), Cliff Thurber, Haijang Zhang, Jeremy Pesicek (Univ. Wisconsin), E.R. Engdahl (Univ. Colorado), M. Brudzinski (Univ. Miami Ohio), and F. Waldhauser (Lamont Observatory, Columbia Univ.)

• • Sunda Project Data and Publication Site
• Imaging 3D Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Heterogeneity Along the Seismogenic Zone of Costa Rica and Nicaragua and Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone Experiment (CRSEIZE), NSF Margins Program, PIs Schwartz (UCSC), Dixon (Miami), Dorman and Brown (Scripps) <
  • CRSEIZE Seismology Data Site

• Earthquake Location and 3D Velocity Determination of Alaskan Volcanoes using Waveform Cross-correlation and Double-difference Tomography, PIs Thurber (U. Wisconsin) and Prejean (AVO)